to generate its own individual history throughout the ages. This more than magnificent dome has been built and rebuilt multiple times. The original Hagia Sophia was built in the fourth century by Constantine the Great but nothing remains of it. The second church was built by Constantius‚ Constantine the Great son‚ and the emperor Theodosius the Great. This was burned down in the Nika riots of 532 but fragment of this church have been found and can be seen today. The next to oversee the reconstruction
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Chapter 1 Notes - Prehistoric Period o Paleolithic Period "Old Stone Age"  Old and primitive period  Around 50‚000BC  Artwork consisted of cave paintings  Brutal period  Average life expectancy was about 20 years o Neolithic Period "New Stone Age"  Begins around 9‚000BC  Neolithic Revolution Agriculture o Allows people luxury of staying in one place; stability and performance o Cornerstone of civilization Domestic Architecture
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Sta. Cruz Festival (April 26) -Barangay Isla -The Santa Cruzan was a novena procession commemorating St. Helena’s mythical finding of the cross. St. Helena was the mother of Constantine the Great. According to legends‚ 300 years after the death of Christ‚ at the age of 75‚ she went to Calvary to conduct a search for the Cross. After some archeological diggings at the site of the Crucifixion‚ she unearthed three crosses. She tested each one by making a sick servant lie on all three.
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history (of Greece proper; as opposed to the other centers of Hellenism in the Roman world) following the Roman victory over the Corinthians at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC until the reestablishment of the city of Byzantium and the naming of the city by the Emperor Constantine as the capital of the Roman Empire (as Nova Roma‚ laterConstantinople) in 330 AD. The Greek peninsula came under Roman rule in 146 BC‚ Macedonia being a Roman province‚ while southern Greece came under the surveillance of Macedonia ’s praefect
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Review for Test 1 – Chapters 1 through 4 Chapter 1 – Beginnings of Civilization 1. What is the name of the place where the oldest paintings known to mankind are found? The neanderthal’s 2. What happened in the Neolithic period that allowed for communities and villages to develop?Agriculture 3. What two things (according to the book) happen together when civilization begins to develop?Hunting and gathering. 4. What is the name of the area where Sumerians settled? Fertile crescent
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4 Phases of Greek Art * Geometric 900-600 B.C.E * Archaic 600-480 B.C.E * Classical 980-323 B.C.E * Hellenistic 323-31 * Large funerary Vase * Known as Diphlon Vase or Krator * From the geometric era * Made from busted clay * Ceramics were used for storage * It also showed a lot of culture with images * The Greek buried their dead & practiced cremations Bronze Man & Centaur * Human body mixed with a horse like figure * Centaur from lefkand
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Christian. He chose Catholicism. 9. What was the common thread that kept people together despite political‚ military‚ and social problems? - Christanity was the only thread that kept people together. 10. What did Constantine do to Christianity in 313? - The Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in 313. 11. What rule did Clovis have a problem with? Thou Shalt Not Steal Honor thy Father and Mother Not Kill ***Thou Shalt 12. According to the video‚ Who was Clovis? - Clovis was the
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In the article First Paper Assignment‚ Robert Bagley questions the rationality of Professor X’s assignment “just look carefully and describe what you see” (Bagley‚ 49) for college freshmen. He believes that an artwork is unable to generate meanings by itself‚ and therefore‚ the description of an artwork could only be supported by putting it in some sort of context. Such context can be gained by multiple ways‚ including but not limited to‚ comparing with similar artworks‚ analyzing the effect played
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Constantinople before Constantine renamed the city after himself was Byzantium . 2. Who was Justinian ‚ Theodora ? Justinian was the emperor in the early byzantine period who ruled from 527 to 565 and Theodora was the wife to him 3. Hagia Sophia built for Justinian . Innovations 4. What are penditives and sqinches ? Penditives are spherical triangle surrounded by arches . squinches are diagonal lintels placed across the upper corner of the wall and supported by an arch 5. How do pendentives
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high‚ for four hundred feet in length. The front facade of the building faces west‚ it is where the main entrance is located. The entrance is actually composed of three separate gateways into the building‚ each under a pointed and extremely decorated arch. Higher on this facade is a long alignment of human sculptures‚ a long balcony and‚ most importantly‚ an enormous Rose window or "Catherine Window" made of colored stained glass. Above that‚ two twin monolith towers rise out of the main body of the
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